Coffee Bread

Ingredients

• one egg
• one-half cup sugar
• one cup milk
• one-half cup yeast
• flour to sponge
• one-half cup butter

Method

1. 1

   When light, add butter worked in with hands and flour enough to make it soft.

2. 2

   Pat down into a greased pan to bake.

3. 3

   Let rise again, press in specks of butter, sprinkle with sugar and cinnamon, and bake about twenty minutes.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The new practical housekeeping (1890) by Estelle Woods Wilcox, page 26. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

one egg, two cupa sour milk, one-third cup molasses, salt and two teaspoons soda. Mix lightly, roll out and oake. South Carolina Biacuit. — One quart sweet cream or milk, one and a half cups butter or fresh lard, two tablespoons white sugar, one good teaspoon salt ; add flour sufficient to make a stiff dough, knead well and mold into neat, small biscuits with the hands, as our grandmothers used to do ; add one good teaspoon cream tartar if preferred ; bake well, and you have good sweet tiacuits that will keep for weeks in a dry place, and are very nice for traveling lunch. They are such as used to be sent to the army, and the "boys" relished them "hugely." Soda' Biecuit. — Put one quart of flour, before sifting, into sieve with one teaspoon soda and two of cream tartar (or three of baking powder), one of salt, and one tablespoon white sugar; mix alt thoroughly with the flour, run through sieve, rub in one level tablespoon of f lard or butter (or half and half), wet ^ with half pint sweet milk, roll ou board about an inch thick, cat with biscuit cutter, and bake in a quick oven fifteen minutes. If you nave not milk, use a little more butter, and wet with water. Handle as little and make as rapidly as possible. Spoon Biacuit- — One qubrt sour tailk or buttermilk, one tea- spoon soda, a little salt, two tablespoons melted lard, and flour enough for a stiff batter ; drop in a hot gem-pan and bake in a quick oven. Tea Biscuits. — Cook until mealy and tender three good sized potatoes, mash through colander, ana add them to one quart floor in which two tablespoons of baking powder have been sifted, butter size of egg rubbed well through the flour, one well-beaten egg, one cup cream and milk enough to make a good firm dough. Roll out to one-half inch in thickness, cut inio small cakes ana bake in hot oven fiiieeD minutes. Unleavened Biacuit. — Five cnps Graham flour, one cup warm {not hot) water, white of one ege well-beaten. Bake in gem pan^ 36 BREAKFAST AND TEA CAKES. Coifee Breach. — One egg, one-half cup sugar, one cup milk, one- half cup yeast and flour to sponge. When light add one-half cup butter

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